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saintsenara · 4 days

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Thoughts on Voldermort/Lucius?

thank you very much for the ask, anon!

i back it entirely - indeed, i have a wee bit of lucimort lurking in the wips folder - because it's got the potential to be such a mess.

by which i mean, lucius is clearly one of voldemort's favourite death eaters during the first war - and certainly his favourite from the interconnected elite male social group which makes up the majority of his minions [bellatrix and snape - his other favourites - are exceptions in terms of gender and social class respectively, and they depend more on voldemort's goodwill for their status among the other death eaters to be maintained than someone like lucius would.]

he is implied in canon to be a major source of new recruits for the dark lord - the prince's tale [and the adult snape's relationship with him] suggests that he was the conduit through which snape was recruited, and a plausible case can also be made that he was the person who first introduced voldemort to regulus [although i prefer to imagine that this was bellatrix].

he is also widely known to have been a death eater, which suggests that he took some sort of public-facing role in voldemort's operation - likely one which traded on his social standing and political and financial influence. i find he's often written in first-war fics as reasonably cautious in terms of his public image - less likely to openly indicate his allegiance than characters like rodolphus lestrange - but i think it's always worth emphasising that nobody, even people on the anti-dumbledore side, buys the story that he was under the imperius curse. that he gets off because of his wealth and influence is an open secret - and cornelius fudge says this out loud at the end of goblet of fire:

“Malfoy was cleared!” said Fudge, visibly affronted. “A very old family - donations to excellent causes - ”

all of which means we can suppose that - prior to his downfall in 1981 - lucius was extremely important to voldemort.

and we can also imagine that voldemort was fond of him - and, indeed, we can prove this, since he tells us in deathly hallows that this fondness for lucius made him weak:

To tell Snape why the boy might return would be foolish, of course; it had been a grave mistake to trust Bellatrix and Malfoy: Didn’t their stupidity and carelessness prove how unwise it was ever to trust?

voldemort is - of course - referring here to the fact that he gave lucius a horcrux to look after. this is an intimacy in and of itself - and it's striking that, of the only two horcruxes he places in a death eater's care, one is given to a woman whose relationship to him is canonically something more than master and servant. that lucius receives the other allows us to suggest the same thing - that his relationship with voldemort was also an intimate one.

but lucius receiving the diary actually suggests an even closer relationship between him and voldemort than that between voldemort and bellatrix - since the diary is evidence of the dark lord's pre-voldemort life.

i'm always struck in order of the phoenix that lucius doesn't bat an eyelid when harry taunts the death eaters waiting for him in the department of mysteries with the fact that voldemort's a half-blood - whereas bellatrix is deeply offended by the suggestion. this is proof - i think - that he knows the truth about [or, at least, understands a reasonably accurate account of] voldemort's origins, and i think we can also assume, given his access to the diary, that this must include voldemort's birth name.

[and - while i think that we're supposed to assume that abraxas malfoy was a death eater and that he's probably a similar age to voldemort, and while i really like the idea that the diary is initially given to abraxas - this would still be the case even if abraxas and voldemort had never set eyes upon each other.]

we know from canon that voldemort is generally extremely cagy about his early life, but that he is nonetheless prepared to reveal certain things about it with people he profoundly trusts - which is why barty crouch jr., for example, knows that he was named after his father. the depth of information about him which lucius is implied by the text to possess can therefore very easily be used to write an intimate relationship between them during the 1970s which sincerely matters to voldemort.

which lucius then utterly destroys.

it's clear from goblet of fire onwards that voldemort is generally furious with the death eaters who pretended to have been under the imperius curse after his disappearance - and that he isn't happy at all about being forced to take these men back into the fold, lest he have no core supporters.

but it's also clear that he's furious at lucius specifically for his failure to come and find him:

“Lucius, my slippery friend,” he whispered, halting before him. “I am told that you have not renounced the old ways, though to the world you present a respectable face. You are still ready to take the lead in a spot of Muggle-torture, I believe? Yet you never tried to find me, Lucius... Your exploits at the Quidditch World Cup were fun, I daresay... but might not your energies have been better directed toward finding and aiding your master?” “My Lord, I was constantly on the alert,” came Lucius Malfoy’s voice swiftly from beneath the hood. “Had there been any sign from you, any whisper of your whereabouts, I would have been at your side immediately, nothing could have prevented me - ” “And yet you ran from my Mark, when a faithful Death Eater sent it into the sky last summer?” said Voldemort lazily, and Mr. Malfoy stopped talking abruptly. “Yes, I know all about that, Lucius... You have disappointed me... I expect more faithful service in the future.”

and voldemort's shattered trust in lucius manifests itself almost at once. while lucius still seems to be favoured by him for most of order of the phoenix, we actually get hints that voldemort sets his tumble down the rankings into motion well before the debacle in the hall of prophecy.

snape tells sirius that lucius malfoy recognises him in padfoot form not only because he enjoys humiliating him, but because he feels safe to do so - evidently, he knows that, even if voldemort was made aware of him revealing this information [harry's standing right there!], the dark lord wouldn't regard it as something he was saying to try and help sirius [and, therefore, evidence that his loyalty to the order is worth investigating] but something he was saying primarily to insult lucius ["you're so careless that even this fucking idiot recognised you."].

similarly, while lucius is evidently the person in charge of the operation in the department of mysteries, it's also clear that bellatrix is there to - to some extent - keep an eye on him.

but most significantly, the information which is most useful to voldemort during order of the phoenix - that harry would do anything to protect sirius - comes to voldemort via narcissa [the person kreacher goes to when sirius orders him out of grimmauld place]. this is a precursor to something the dark lord goes on to do a lot over the course of half-blood prince and deathly hallows - circumvent lucius and use narcissa [and draco] as tools to humiliate [and, specifically, emasculate] him.

the vitriol which voldemort directs towards lucius far exceeds that directed towards any other death eater, even those - yaxley, the carrows, snape - who got off their charges post-1981 by pretending to have renounced him, and those - travers, the lestrange brothers, dolohov - who were captured in the department of mysteries. and his rage can absolutely be written as having been caused by lucius - for whom he felt something and who he assumed reciprocated those feelings - revealing that the whole thing actually meant much less to him.

which gives us some absolutely banging premises for fics.

maybe lucius ends up with voldemort in the first war because abraxas pimps him out - mary and george style - to try and secure the dark lord's favour. maybe his canonical tension with bellatrix is because voldemort plays them off against one another for his physical affections. maybe lucius tries to fuck his way back into voldemort's good books post-resurrection, but finds the dark lord considerably less amenable to this than he was hoping. maybe voldemort's punishment of draco for the sins of his father ends up having a sexual element.

and maybe there's a bit - one languid summer in the late seventies - when it's actually quite sweet. blondes do, after all, have more fun.

#asks answered #asenora's opinions on ships #lucimort #lucius malfoy #tom riddle #lord voldemort #unhinged and deranged ships #and yet one i'm convinced by

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thelighthousestale · 4 months

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More Pettigrew Thoughts

He was the youngest of the Mauraders

Like I said in the first part, one of Peter’s vulnerabilities to radicalization is his desire for a position of influence inside a group dynamic. He wants to feel valued and wants people he think are cool or important to rely on him

Peter’s betrayal of James and framing of Sirius was pre-mediated and planned out

This leads me to think that Remus and Sirius starting to distrust each other was a recent development and was part of Peter’s manipulation to control the group dynamic so he could sell out the Potters.

It all happened so fast that Remus and Sirius didn’t have time to understand or question Peter’s whisper campaign fully. They all knew someone close to them had turned on the order and I don’t think anyone was sleeping well, or in their right mind and Peter used that to his advantage

Peter subtly planted the switch secret keeper plan in Sirius's head to make him think it was his idea.

Peter did not plan on staying a rat for 12 years because the Killing Curse backfired and Voldermort becoming a shade was not part of the Plan. After Voldy disappeared Peter needed to lie low and staying with a family as a pet meant food and a warm bed.

Peter’s backup plan was to change his appearance and move abroad permanently but he could never master the transfiguration spells. (shame he got his best friend who was a transfiguration prodigy murdered)

But Peter gathered lots of good intel by staying with the Weasleys (especially what happened to former death eaters. Peter brought Voldy all the hot gossip)

When he realized he was going to share a dorm with Harry he freaked out but when he figured that Voldemort was still out there and actively trying to come back to power he stayed in place.

Peter thought Voldemort would reward him with all the intimate knowledge he gathered on Harry

And the sad luck of Peter is after he spent more than a decade as a rat, betrayed his best friends, gathered information on former death eaters, harry potter and wizarding politics, went willying back to Voldemort and spent a year resurrecting him, playing servant to Snape and the Malfoys, all he got was a stupid silver arm that ended up killing him

#harry potter #harry potter headcanon #peter pettigrew #moony wormtail padfoot and prongs #wormtail #mwpp #the #the mauraders

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lemonhemlock · 1 year

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Omg yes! The whole thing with poor wizard families is so weird cuz like they have magic? Just use some spells and fix shit?? Lmao. Wizarding society doesn't even need any jobs! Spells and potions can do anything for them!! There also the thing that hogwarts isnt the only magical school there are more out there! The universe oh hp is just so vast and there so much that can be done with it!

I actually would love to hear ur thoughts on it! Specially on the rl connection it makes and on Voldemort and his death eaters!

so voldermort is SUCH an awful antagonist and my main gripe with him is that he isn't hot. yes, this is going somewhere.

voldemort's entire thing is that he is terrified of dying so he will do anything in order to avoid that. the horcruxes i thought were actually a really cool idea with a lot of fucky symbolism - breaking your own soul into pieces and stashing them away so as to ensure your immortality? pretty metal. especially since it's implied you have to perform a murder beforehand. neat!

but, at the same time, what exactly is voldemort's quality of life? why does he want to live forever? he starts off as a handsome boy and gets slowly turned into an egghead with no nose! he's played by ralph fiennes and he is not hot, i cannot stress that enough. wizards tend to live very long lives as is, remember that dumbledore died at 150 or so! voldemort dies the second time at 70, after dying the first time at about 50?? come on. so he's fugly as hell, he doesn't want to have fun or fuck bitches or eat good food or live like a king or watch an endless amount of soap operas. he just wants to live a noseless existence?? what a joke. had he not meddled with anything, he could have lived well past dumbledore's age, because he, too, had a few more good years left in him, but he wastes himself away with the horcruxes. and doesn't even use them properly? he is vanquished from his body once by baby harry, but why does it take until book 1 for him to become corporeal again? isn't that a pretty shit immortality system?

his political goals don't make a whole lot of sense either. ok, he wants to rule over muggles bc wizards are so very superior. cool. but how is that feasible? there are a lot more muggles than wizards and they have all kinds of weapons, including fucked up shit like carpet bombing and drones and WMDs. i don't really see how wizards would stand a chance in an all-out war. also, jk really sells him out short. bc she is so very british-centric in her view, she doesn't consider the international implications of this (lol). say britain got conquered by weird-ass people who can perform magic spells. are the european union (hail pre-brexit times) and the US just gonna sit on their arses while this happens? are the rest of the wizards in other countries just gonna stand by? please be serious.

she should have somehow turned this into a world-wide rebellion happening at the same time if she wanted any kind of chance of it working. but that would have been way more dystopian when she really was afraid of veering the books too much into adult fiction. sucks to suck, i suppose. this is why we're in this fandom today.

also. voldemort and his cronies are still very much just a minority within the british wizarding society. how do they not get their arses handed back to them by sheer difference in numbers? everything is on easy mode with these guys, just because they're not afraid to use unforgivable curses.

this needs to be said as well but MARKING your loyal followers who are supposed to stay SUPER SECRET to not risk imprisonment with a very visible snake tattoo is so.... it's a choice, i'll tell you that.

#i was a huge potterhead so the lore will follow me for the rest of my life #non-90s kids will never understand #ask #anon #hp #harry potter

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cyprus-green · 2 years

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Memento Mori

Draco x Hermione | Rated E | HBP & On AU | Tags: Angst, Draco-centric, 2nd Wizarding War, pre/post War, Dark with happy moments, Morally Grey Hermione, Morally Grey Draco, BAMF Draco, BAMF Hermione, light anti-ron, Smut, Slowish Burn, Tender

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By Drops_of_CyprusGreen

Coming to Ao3 September 2022

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During the second battle of Hogwarts, a violent and mysterious curse devistates both sides of the war. Voldermort is finally defeated, the Order is left standing victorious and nearly all Death Eaters are killed or on the run.

Nearly all.

But Draco Malfoy? He's found barely alive, and is given an opportunity for a new life, by the most unlikey source.

The girl he tormented as a child.

The woman he's been harboring feelings for, for years.

The golden girl, herself. Death Eaters' Bane. A perfect vision of The Angel of Death.

Hermione Jean Granger.

Hunt down the most deadly death eaters who ever lived? Help Hermione Granger avenge her parent's murder? Get a second chance at life?

If only it were that simple...

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cherry-holland · 2 years

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The Lion, the Witch, & the Serpent

Journey to Hogwarts preview

Author’s note: so upon gathering this preview, I will be posting both this chapter and the next one this week!! I have some chapters pre written, and I didn’t realize how short this chapter is 😅 the Enchanted Encounter chapter will be posted on Tuesday, so be on the lookout for that one!! 🥳

Valeria took one last look behind her after getting in the train, and waved back, wiping a tear from her eye carefully, not smudging her mascara she took her time putting on that morning.

The train hissed as it turned on, the loud chugging of the engine downing out all noise. She stepped into the cabin, realizing she was the only one in there, besides Kip. “Hey, Kip? Why am I the only one on this train?” She asked, a confused look painting her face.

“Well, Miss Lopez, not very many students get to be a part of the Exchange program here in America. Most Exchange students come from other countries in Europe, but never from here,” Kip drawled. “You’re, I believe, the first American witch to receive the honor in a good ten years.”

“Ten years? Why has it been so long?” Valeria questioned as she sat down in a booth.

“Because of You-Know-Who,” Kip replied, in a low voice. “A lot of American witches and wizards are afraid of going across the pond, because they saw the devastation he brought over there, and have this theory that if they go there, he might come back.”

Valeria’s face twisted into disbelief. “Really? Is that what we actually think? You-Know-Who has been stopped by Harry Potter, and is dead. What, do people just think he’s gonna pop back up one day?”

Valeria saw Kip’s eyebrow arch up with a twitch. “Miss Lopez -“

“You can call me Val, Kip,” the teen interrupted.

“- Val, there are rumors that have been going around saying that he never really left. Says he’s been hiding somewhere in Europe, waiting for the opportunity to come back and gain strength, to finish what he started,” Kip continued, with a stern-yet-hushed tone.

Valeria’s eyes nearly popped out of her socket. You-Know-Who is possibly still alive? That can’t be…

“Yeah I know what you’re thinking, that can’t be!! But, hey, in my opinion? You-Know-Who is one powerful bad wizard, anything can happen,” Kip said, shrugging.

Valeria just blinked at his statement, and Kip took that as an end to the conversation, turning around to go to the front of the cabin they were in. Her thoughts were swimming with theories and possibilities that… Voldermort could still be alive somewhere. How long could he survive though? Was it his soul that was still on earth somewhere? Or was it in the spirit world?

What would happen if he were to come back?

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fullocoal · 3 years

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Warm nights before the storm

#my art #fullocoal #hp #wolfstar #Harry Potter #hp fanart #Remus lupin #sirius black #padfoot #lily potter #james potter #harry james potter #pre voldermort #fan art #jily headcanon #jily #jily fanart #wolfstar fanart

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ardeawritten · 3 years

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In defense of "somehow, Palpatine returned"

I haven't the foggiest how that plot was supposed to work on Disney terms, but in the comics / pre-Disney expanded universe he did come back as a clone, turn Luke to the dark side and do a bunch of other nonsense. I don't think anyone liked that plot then either!

That aside, in expanded universe lore making force-sensitive clones was tricky business and involved a ton of failures, trial and error, and the huge risk your resulting success would go bananas or just turn on you, and it happened a couple times with various jedi. Even outside of cloning, dark Jedi were difficult to get rid of- they tended to come back as spirits and influence or posses people with annoying regularity. Having a Sith pop up again and again like a game of force-linked whack-a-mole might not be the best plot, but it is a plot with precedent in the SW universe. The 'Somehow, Palpatine returned' line from that character's POV can make complete sense if they have an idea it's possible but zero knowledge of the process involved.

You can 'somehow, return' all the dark lords you want provided the audience believes how hard it was to get there. Baffle and terrify your characters. Rip the rug from under their feet as they face down the ancient terror thought long put to rest. Shock them into retreat with the sudden resurrection of their parents' boogeyman. Their POV might be confused and in disbelief, but treat your audience to the behind-the-curtain look at the coven that's been chanting non-stop for forty years, the science division that's been churning out thousands of failed clones, the fanatics who have searched a hundred worlds for the resting place of their god, etc. Show the how, and the cost. Even if the heroes never get to see it.

-Mummy Returns did it pretty well with the 'we have clearly searched for a very long time and lost a lot of people to deadly traps,' Harry Potter did it with 'we've been faithful to our vanquished voldermort for decades,' LotR did it with 'Sauron has been quietly amassing power for hundreds of years and the effects are obvious in hindsight.' To the average person without intimate knowledge of how that dark lord got back, the shrug and "IDK how they did it but it's now a PROBLEM" is a justified response!

#star wars #yeah it was a dumb plot the first time too #should have gone with pre-retcon ruthless brilliant Thrawn instead

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hpwlwbigbang · 4 years

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FIC & ART: your hand in mine (feels so good)

Title: your hand in mine (feels so good) Pairing: Luna/Ginny Author: @inamamagic Rating: Explicit Warnings/Content Notes: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, AU: Voldermort was defeated in 1981, AU: No Second War, Butch Ginny Weasley, Auror Ginny Weasley, Magical Researcher Luna Lovegood, Journalist Romilda Vane, Mutual Pining, Miscommunication, Political Corruption, Background Activism, Undercover, Auror Investigations, Accidental Kissing, Toxic Ex-Girlfriend, Fred Weasley Lives, Sex Club, Strap-Ons, Explicit Sexual Content. SEE FULL TAGSET ON AO3 Summary: After a disgraceful exit from the Holyhead Harpies two years prior, Ginny Weasley is settling into her new career as an Auror, but a new mission has her questioning everything she’s repressed since leaving the team. Luna Lovegood is responsible for creating an antidote for blood maledictions, but when she gets attacked, Ginny is assigned to guard her round the clock. Though they were old friends at Hogwarts, they haven’t seen each other or spoken in four years, and their once strong friendship is strained.

Ginny has her reasons for mistrusting Luna. The distance brought on by Ginny’s Quidditch career and Luna’s global travels was enough to drive a wedge, but Luna’s sale of her cure to the Burdock Corporation caused a deep crack. With personal experience driving her resentment, Ginny doesn’t understand why Luna would make her cure inaccessible for people who’d need it, but she can’t help but wonder if there’s more to the story than it seems.

Stuck in the safehouse together, old feelings begin to resurface, even without answers to all of Ginny's questions. Soon enough, keeping a level head to focus on her assignment grows more difficult than she anticipated. Word Count: 81558 Author’s Note: This is long, please bear with me. I owe an indescribable debt of gratitude to the mods, @violetclarity and @yrfrndfrnkly, for putting this fest together. Last year’s HPWLWBB started posting at a time when I was bed-ridden, and this year’s BB is one of the main things that’s kept me on my feet. My gratitude to you runs very deep. Thank you for re-igniting my sense of hope. Huge thanks also to the amazing artists that collaborated on this story, @showknight, @runsquidling, and @narrowredoubt. Thank you for your enthusiasm about this story and producing such beautiful pieces. It was a privilege to be able to collaborate with you and to have your amazing work standing alongside this fic. Thank you to the HPWLWBB discord, for all the support and fun, and to everyone I ran sprints with - they were instrumental in getting the words out, and it felt so much better to have some company. I’m looking forward to getting to read all your awesome work. Finally, a big shoutout to the three people who stopped this fic from becoming an unmitigated disaster. To Satan_i, for all the sweltering, pre-lockdown afternoons at [redacted], and for enduring those horrible chairs with me. This story owes its all of its structural integrity to you. Thank you for untangling the knots with me, for taking chapter four from mess to yes, and for the last-minute emergency read-through. This story would make ZERO sense without you. Thanks for always being my creative partner. To chaseandcatch, for jumping in to beta read for me, running copy edits, and offering a much-needed objective gaze. This story owes a lot of its clarity and cohesion to you. Thank you so much for doing all you did in such little time. I’m so very grateful <3 To R, my dearest one. Thank you for looking over the sexy bits, and for helping me keep things in perspective. Sayang you, so, so much. Artist’s Medium/Notes: @runsquidling Medium: Dip pen with acrylic ink, Copic liner pen, and watercolor on 140lb hot press paper Notes: Thank you so much to the mods for putting this all together and Inamamagic for the great story! :heart: @showknight Medium: a mix of traditional and digital art Notes: N/A @narrowredoubt Medium: Digital Notes: I’m so happy I had the opportunity to collaborate on such an excellent work! Shout out to the mods who made this all possible :)!

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what2finish · 3 years

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ao3feed-tomarrymort · 4 years

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by zainecooking123450

part one of the sires on the first time harry and voldermort met (as not ennmeys) (ootf and the dom) + verry short pronnologe

Words: 88, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Underage

Categories: M/M

Characters: Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Albus Dumbledore

Relationships: Harry Potter/Voldemort

Additional Tags: Pre-Sirius Black/Remus Lupin

#ao3feed #fanfiction #harry potter #tomarry #harrymort

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stagcharmed-a · 4 years

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Since I assume voldermort could not have given peter the dark mark during gof when he was a weird baby thing I must assume peter had it pre voldermort ‘dying’ while james and lily were alive? oof

#OOF

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ao3feed-snape · 2 years

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The Pureblood Muggle

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by fr3yja_05

" i know a thing or two about being a disappointment "

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EVANGELINE WILLARD, a girl born into a prestigious pureblood family in the time of the golden trio only she appears to reflect muggles with her magical inability

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Bullied mocked or outright ignored, Eve stumbles through her life at hogwarts trying to forget her considerable imperfections and live through her school life

And it was all going swimmingly until a particular slytherin took notice of the muggle girl

THEODORE NOTT, Son of the imprisoned death eater and deceased mother, pureblood supremacist he has his own demons to fight behind the velvet curtains,

The two were brought together by the hogwarts professors, Theo takes it upon himself to "fix" her

Outside of the walls of hogwarts, voldermort and his army of death eaters are growing. What happens when the two students discover something that could turn the tables in this war?

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" are you really a squib? "

" excuse me? "

" you heard. "

" yes, of course I am. I didn't make a fool of myself in charms for nothing. "

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Words: 5547, Chapters: 4/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Theodore Nott, Original Female Character(s), Ginny Weasley, Blaise Zabini, Pansy Parkinson, Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Tom Riddle | Voldemort, Severus Snape, Horace Slughorn

Relationships: Theodore Nott/Original Female Character(s), Ginny Weasley/Original Female Character(s), Draco Malfoy/Theodore Nott, Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Hermione Granger/Pansy Parkinson, Neville Longbottom/Luna Lovegood, Lavender Brown/Ron Weasley

Additional Tags: Squibs, Muggles, Pureblood Society (Harry Potter), War, Alternate Universe - Harry Potter Setting, The Golden Trio Era (Harry Potter), Character Death, Anxiety, Depression, Magic, Fae & Fairies, Hogwarts Sixth Year, Bisexuality, Gay, LGBTQ Character, Pre-Battle of Hogwarts, The Slug Club (Harry Potter)

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3oA7FGF

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #Severus Snape #Snape #Professor Snape #SS

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ginniewheezie · 7 years

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Fmk: Viktor, Fenrir or Tom Riddle (not voldermort)

Ohh I love Tom pre-voldy

F: TomM: ViktorK: Fenrir

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jhaernyl · 7 years

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Have you ever had a phrase or a concept get stuck into your head?

Like, I am nowhere ready to make the post my mind wants me to make

But I am haunted by the beginning phrase

And it's not even that good

Like, it's run of the mill normal shit but it's keeps popping up

@gallusrostromegalus : like a writing earworm?

Yes

'Now, let's talk about how a war in magical Britain should have played out and which consequences wars ought to have.'

Because, as I explained to my mother, JKR tells us there was a war, eleven years before and that it was terrible and bloody and that there were attacks and families disappeared and it lasted eleven. fucking. years. but we never see the consequences of the war in the social and cultural fabric of her wizarding world.

We never see the influences it came from, the philosophical and ideological currents, we never see memorials or art or anything that remembers, commemorates, damns.

Kids at school with Harry in Harry's first year lived through the end of that war, some of them old enough to remember relatives dying in it, but we never see it.

Because that war was eleven years long, ended eleven years priors and the Seventh years at Hogwarts when Harry arrives, where six years old then, the Sixth years were five years old, the Fifth years were four years old.

Maybe the magical world is so little now because of that war, that began in the years after Voldemort's return and his climb to power (apparently there was one, not that we are ever told anything relevant about it) by sinister disappearances and then exploded in so many murders, tortures and disappearances that the Aurors were overwhelmed.

Maybe the pureblood in Malfoy's circle still believe in their purity because they stick to their circles and their circles are the ones who emerged the most unscathed, for obvious reasons, but all the other families they considered beneath notice? They were wiped out or went into hiding or left or were maimed and lost family members and they won't forget and they cannot forgive and they are few when once they were many.

They still believe they are strong, but if the eleven years of terror Voldemort rained on the magical world (which means that the whole time James and Sirius and Snape and Lily and Remus and Regulus were at Hogwarts, their world outside was one of terror) did anything, it was to cull the magical populations blood until magic had no recourse left but to start pouring into kids they would call 'mudbloods'.

Where does the magic goes, where there is no 'pure', no 'half' blood to come alive into?

Down the squib lines, down into blood that will be stronger because it's new and not crossed over and over again until it has become harmful to those who mean to cross it again.

But wouldn't the pureblood notice?

How?

They are wrapped in their own little world and acquaintances, because no one decent will have someone of their ilk over at their place or welcomed into their celebrations.

Imperiused or not, the killer of your children, of your sister, of your relatives, will never be welcomed at your table.

Lucius Malfoy is a Governor of Hogwarts, but he is not a student and most student who walk the Halls are not willing to spill the beans or try to inform to curtail the favour of someone like Lucius Malfoy.

Because, If Malfoy wasn't Imperiused, he was a liar.

Because, if he was Imperiused, he was either willing enough to do what he was told to do to not struggle that hard or he was too weak to break the hold of the Imperius on himself or both.

How is that someone you want to associate with?

Let him pour gold in your pockets, if you are the type to be bribed, yes, do him the occasional favor if you don't have any grudge against him yourself, sure why not, but trust and support and advice and inform?

Nah.

He is not the kind of wizard you want to be that in cahoots with, Malfoy, especially not when he will take and sneer and condescend and, seriously, fuck the Malfoys.

Those students, their families, they have lived through the war and they know better.

They are teaching better to those who join their world without being in the know yet and most purebloods kids of the people in the Malfoy's circles have learned to keep their mouths shut at school and about school, because there are those who have been so scarred by the war that they are just spoiling to be given an excuse to lash out righteously.

They have lived through the war too, and their parents came out on the losing side.

Their future depends on the good will of the victors, regardless of what their parents seem to think it’s going on.

Where are the memorials to the fallen? Where are speeches on days they ‘cannot afford to forget’?

Where are the consequences of an eleven years long war that supposedly destroyed generations of the magical world?

JKR never wrote them, not really, never stopped to consider what her words could mean, how long eleven years can be, never thought of the individual stories or the oversweeping, long lasting influences on society and art and expression.

Draco Malfoy calling someone a mudblood in public should have garnered far more than Ron attempting to make him eat slugs.

Especially from the older students.

Especially from his own House that has tried so hard to disavow the actions of those that came before them as a survival tactic.

Especially from the muggleborns and halfbloods and purebloods of his own House who do not stand for Voldermort's shit, will not stand, have never stood.

Durmstrang in a bit of dialogue by Viktor Krum in book 7 shows more realistic consequences of Grindewald's regime on the psyche of it's students than Hogwarts does for Voldemort's eleven years long war on it's own population.

@gallusrostromegalus: THESE ARE ALL EXCELLENT POINTS AND I;D READ THE SHIT OUT OF A FANTASY BOOK DONE BY YOU

@gallusrostromegalus: i'm listening in attentive silence

@gallusrostromegalus: also it's 5AM and i am short on words but yes good.

I have been working for years on maps and timelines and stuff. It all started because I wanted a Hufflepuff!Harry and I wrote down a complete roster for his first year of school.

I made stories in my head for everyone as I wrote down where they live, their blood status, their ethnicity, their religion, if they are prefects or not.

I made Quidditch team lists.

Then I realized that I was looking at it in a 'normal school way' and that was neither fair nor realistic.

So I ripped my heart out and made a 'War Adjusted' version.

Blacked out names.

I drew black lines with the Open Office highlighter tool on them and rewrote my numbers and suddenly I wanted to tell their stories, I wanted to know how and why they died and I wanted it to have meaning.

It slowly snowballed into making maps of magical places based (except in a couple of cases) on runes as bases.

Recently (I blame all the visits with my mother at the Tate Modern during the last four weekends) I started thinking about art pre-war and art of the war and art post-war.

I thought about Grimmauld Place not as a dark mausoleum infested by dark creatures but as an elegant, aristocratic palace.

With white marble and elegant gold, with portraits of aristocratic wizard and witches on the walls and beautiful vistas that are only beautiful as long as you don't know that the field you are watching has breen drenched red with the blood of peasants in the Reinassance because a village was standing in the perfect place for the new Black estate.

It needed to go and the mudbloos needed not to know where the estate would be and why waste time Obliviating mudbloods when you can just kill them?

Make it a family outing!

Dark does not mean 'mad' or 'ugly' or 'rotten'.

You can be the most beautiful man those you see as inferiors have ever seen, of perfectly sound mind and without a stain on your soul, because you live by the Code of Honor of your family and those are ants who are in the way of a grandiose new achievement, and you'll still be Dark because you use your magic in certain specific ways, with certain intents.

@gallusrostromegalus: rolls happily in meta while sobbing IT'S SO GOOD

I made notes about wands and elemental wands and families who made pacts with the Fae and other creatures. Marcus Flint may have a troll's teeth, but does he also have a troll's strength? Resistance to spells? Sacrifice beauty for defense and power, now that's a bargain to make.

I wrote down family trees from canon and then made my own to fill in (part of) the rest.

And I keep going back to the war, to the Rise of Voldemort and then eleven years of fear and how would that warp a society?

Wouldn't the children at Hogwarts, especially those who were five when the war ended, who were four, who were three and have vague memories of the fear and have been taken every year to the memorials and had family ceremonies, close ranks around Harry Potter?

Because if the Slytherin monster wants anyone, it would be the halfblood kid who was supposed to have ended the line with Voldemort.

They will not let that happen.

I have one character, who lost family in the war and was in an attack when that family died protecting him, when technically he was the reason they were attacked. His family is notoriously neutral, has always been, but then their people were also never touched.

Ever since that attack, the whole family swore a blood feud on their magic never to rest until all Death Eaters and their leader have been brought to justice.

He is a Slytherin prefect, burning with the ambition of avenging his mother and aunt and sister and he is a Duelist, which is not someone who is good in a duel of wands.

Being a Duelist is a state of mind, a way of life, is being trained into a mindset, is changing the way you see a room, the way you consider people, it's warping yourself into a lethal someone and he is the brightest star of his family.

Do you think such a prefect, who burns from within with righteous fury and has a blood feud singing in his veins, would ever stand aside if a Malfoy came strutting in and called someone a mudblood? Said in the common room 'I hope Granger is next' ?

And where is the society too? Where is the theatre and the music, where are the muggleborns bringing innovation and spreading it beneath the noses of the conservative purebloods, so busy congratulating each other that they fail to notice how it's insidiously spreading?

I have a boy, oldest of a brood of twelve all wizard and witches and all born to Squib parents, who has finished Hogwarts and has put on a commerce of enchanting beads to play music. Each bead is a song. A bracelet is an album. A necklace is a discography.

He is planning to make beads available on demand for 'Make your own set of songs'.

He began his commerce by Geminio-ing newspapers and magazines at school, asking his parents to send them to him so he can multiply them and sell them to muggleborns and halfbloods who want to keep in touch with the muggle world. Selling them to curious purebloods.

His siblings inherited that commerce and he used the money from that to fund his own music shop, bringing muggle music into the wizarding world.

If you buy a complimentary enchanted earring, the music will only play in your ear rather than out in the air. Buy both earrings and you have a portable player.

Draw a circle with your wand on the bead and left to right the volume will increase, right to left the volume will decrease. Tap once to play, twice to pause, thrice to stop. If you tap on the first bead of a bracelet or a necklace, all the beads will play one right after the other. If you want to listen to a bead in particular again just tap it and the cycle will reset from there. If you want to listen to a bead on repeat, tap it once and hold a steady pressure for five seconds.

You have accessories that play music now, how cool is that?

Where is the conservative culture, with their outdated ways, with their young artists drawing as of old and using ‘raditional’ mediums that contrast with what muggleborn and halfblood artists are doing?

Where are the conservatives’ young musicians composing in the way it was once done, for piano and violin and magical orchestra?

Who is in the production line of household items, where do they live? Who enchants the beautiful items, who crafts them? How do self-repairing charms affect the market? Are certain items enchanted to resist any Reparo,and similar or derivative spells, to assure a continuity of market? Who imports? Who exports?

What kind of books and plays and stories are written and narrated? What sort of entertainment is played over the radio in between Celestina Warbeck's songs?

What books would you find, in Grimmauld Place, in their beautiful and airy library, with plush carpeting and so much Lore?

What kind of version of Beetle the Bard's stories rests in a forgotten bottom corner of Regulus' bedroom's shelves, stolen from his one-year-older brother the year that Sirius went to Hogwarts, so that Regulus could read the stories and imagine Sirius quietly making the voices for him so that Mother would not overhead and punish them for indulging such flight of fancies?

How much did narrative and the kind of books sold change from before Voldemort's eleven years of terror to during-in-the-beginning to during-in-the-middle to during-at-the-end to after?

How much did art and style and clothing and decorations change?

Accessories, colors, hairstyles, wand holsters?

What potions were more popular before, in the various moments during, after?

Drinks and food?

Popular games?

What proverbs and way-of-saying and slang and turn of words fell out of favor and which ones emerged? How much did language change?

What was the pureblood vs halfblood vs muggleborn composition of the magical world before those eleven years? Did the purebloods come to believe they could do away with muggleborns with semi-impunity because they were the majority? Did they think that they could prune away opposing purebloods because there were so many of them and they mistakenly thought that enough would always be left?

Did they think they could entice more 'pure' blood from outside and have it be subservient to them as they were the ones who were there beforehand? Was it this how the Malfoy family, whom I headcanon as once having been French, first arrived in the UK and was this how they thought they could position themselves better? Move to a primacy position from a subordinate one?

You can sum it up in 'eleven years of war' and a couple of phrases here and there, as JKR did, but you are not going to make it real and it galls at me to think of all the ways I was never showed that there had been a war and that said war had had consequences.

What if Slytherin has a bad reputation now, but when Tom Riddle went to Hogwarts, Slytherin was for the cunning and ambitious and intelligent and Ravenclaw was the one with the nasty reputation?

The last big Dark One had been a Ravenclaw, maybe, and their friends had banded with them.

'All intelligence, all knowledge and all ruthlessness. No soul to them.'

Maybe it had been a Hufflepuff, a century or two before and everyone still whispered in whispers of the loyalty of the followers, of the hard work they had put into trying to change things.

And why would Tom Riddle put himself in the 'evil' houses, then?

He might have wanted that loyalty, he might have been burning with a thirst for knowledge but no.

Better play it safe.

Better be Slytherin, the smart ones you could rely to think their way out of a problem.

What if, shocking idea I know, it's the actual events of the world you lived into or your parents lived into that warps House reputation and changes it through the centuries?

'Hufflepuff only look out for their own' turns into 'No one capable of empathy ever came out of Ravenclaw' becomes 'There's not a dark wizard who has not been a Slytherin'.

History is changed, shelved, warped, forgotten, repurporsed, remixed by those who follow and their own experiences, in an endless cycle.

They used to whisper 'Gryffindor forges conquerors who will stop at nothing, don't trust them, they will use you in their charges as an expendable wand and toss you aside when your core is spent', and it was at the height of British Magical Colonialism.

Addendum: how many professions there used to be in the Magical World before Voldemort's eleven years of war? How many professions went lost? How many wandmakers? How many scholars and researchers?

Is the Ministry such a mess because they went from having a reasonable workforce to being incredibly short staffed, once purebloods and halfbloods started dropping like flies and muggleborns were either dead or driven into hiding, except for a couple of cases?

How many children were homeschooled or withdrawn from Hogwarts because it simply was not safe for them to be in there?

How many families do not trust Hogwarts, because yes Voldemort (and why should they still fear the name so many years afterward? Why shouldn't they boldly go ahead and use the name, to spite the dead monster? To refuse him their fear? He is dead, ding dong the Wicked Wizard of the UK is gone) might have never gone against Dumbledore, but Dumbledore let the youngest wannabe Death Eater stay there and get away with doing 'foul' things to students, to a point where even muggleborn students were aware of who those people were going to be?

(See Lily and Snape's discussion in Book 7).

If there was an active group of terrorists who wanted nothing more to kill you and your children, would you leave your children in the same school as those monsters? Let them have leeway to torment and come to know their faces and habits and friends?

Hell fucking no.

How were the markets influenced by the war? Which items were in high demand? What was used to make them? To bring back the potions point from above, which ingredients became scarce or rare because of the demand for them? How much did it inflate prices? What alternative solutions were found, if you couldn't afford them / couldn't afford them anymore?

Which professions were bolstered and soared and which ones fell in disrepair because they were unneeded? How many people changed job track because their chosen profession was not what was paid for anymore / because they thought they needed to specialize differently?

How did all of this influence Healers and Healing as a profession? The stockpiles of St.Mungo? How many healers are around who know how to counter dark curses and have earned to do brutal triage when necessary and how to pull off miracles on a fly? How many Healers died? How many Healers exhausted themselves into dangerous low levels of magical energy, just to save one more? How many were killed, because they had become targets for being too good at their jobs?

Where are Mad Eye Moody colleagues?

I have a muggleborn Hit Wizard who lives right next door to the Ministry and and works in his office and has since the war, when his muggle wife and not-even-two-years old daughter were killed by Death Eaters as a 'warning' to him to stop doing his job as an auror.

Where are the aurors still surviving at the end of those first eleven years, kids who became veterans, veterans who were hollowed out, the people who would not stand if even a whiff of Voldemort's return went past their noses, those of them who still have working ones?

Those who saw Pureblood Maniacism develop as a cultural current of thought and felt plagued by the 'if I'd seen it sooner' 'if we acted more swiftly' 'if only' 'if only' 'if only'?

The ones who swore 'never again' and 'not in my lifetime', where are they?

Eleven years of peace are not enough to heal eleven years of war, coming on the heels of a build up of a handful of years marred by disappearances, coming on the heels of Grindewald's war in Europe.

#HP #Harry Potter #HP meta #Harry Potter meta #my meta

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mikeandpsych-blog · 7 years

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Kick Off...

This is the first of many blogs in relation to my experience as an aspiring researcher and will serve as the primary resource that I will adopt to express my thoughts, feelings and acquired knowledge throughout the PY0766 module.

Well, where to start? This is the eve of my second week on my new course and while I cannot begin to express how excited I am by the opportunities that have been channelled my way, whether in the form of placements, research groups or the newfound fact that the word “I” is now permissible in an official assessment. What is a shame however, is what runs parallel to this....The insurmountable quantity of anger, fear and worry, caused by the statistical programming equivalent of Lord Voldermort himself... R-Studio. This I will touch on in later.

In brighter news, I have received some really useful advice concerning the theoretical and practical underpinnings associated to conceptualising and designing a feasible research project. Specifically, how our tendency to rely on t-values is actually fundamentally flawed, as using the .05 significance level statistically infers around 45% of all findings could in-fact be false, especially in under-powered studies. Perhaps underling the necessity for preventative steps by researchers whether in the form of power analyses, methodology choice, design (low-bias meta analyses) or a-priori predictions (possibly in the form of R-values) to ‘sugar coat’ their findings should significant results be found.

However, this illuminates another vital point. Fundamentally, the psyche of the psychological community (if you pardon the pun) has long been obsessed with the notion of ‘significance’ in samples and their connotations on the global stage, and while I firmly understand the good this has done across multiple domains, perhaps the dawn of change is upon us. Recent work has begun to highlight this notion, and challenge the mentality of researchers so that instead of ‘chasing’ such significance, focus is beginning to paid to pre-registration, randomised trials and a elevated peer-review process.

Yet, while I am under no illusion that the psychometric ‘light at the end of tunnel’ is even there, let alone in sight, one thing this does do is perhaps open the door for a slightly frowned upon approach in qualitative methods. Its focus relies less on significant differences between groups, but rather on the raw themes and codes that underpin them, requiring less (albeit some) interpretation making it less prone to forms of bias.

All of which is very important, and has shaped my personal thoughts on the topic, so much so that for my thesis I am considering a mixed methods approach, and while I understand this can cause difficulties in the design stage and in possible discrepancies between data types. I believe, should care be taken, it allows for the theoretical exploration of a topic, while also inferring to the traditional standards of allowing for a statistically significant result.

However, for this I will need R-studio...sorry Lord VolRmort. For those who haven't encountered this treacherous piece of software before the only way I can describe it is in the form of a hormonal child that literally has its own mood swing in its front garden. So that, even the slightest cock up results in (what it perceives to be) the end of the world, throwing its toys out the pram and instead of crying, it repeatedly yells at me about “syntax errors”.

The annoying thing is however, much like a moody 16 year old whose parents forgot to buy it the latest FIFA 18 game, no matter how many times I tell it everything is going to be okay, and enter a new code (or hypothetically give it its game) it sticks its bottom lip out and wants nothing to do with you! So much so, you become that intertwined in the process you forget you left you Pizza in the oven resulting in this...

However, I will muster through (with the cooking and VoldRmort). So...3 mental breakdowns, a heart to heart about p-values and a burnt pizza later this concludes my first blog!

They’ll be no pictures this week as I’m currently in hiding following a rather controversial penalty decision at Arsenal last weekend, so keep posted for further updates! Thanks for reading!

Mike

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